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November 2009 
SEAHORSES - BEAUTIFUL
Posted on Feb 10th, 2009
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Taikunping
Taikunping
The beautiful colored seahorses belong to the most magnificent and most remarkable organisms of the seas. Actually a seahorse is quite normal fish, coming along only in a very special dress. There are about 35 different species of seahorses spread all over the world, but only a small spectrum of this variety is frequently imported for aquarist purposes.
Seahorses � Classification
Seahorses are vertebrate fish. Technically, their taxanomic classification is the Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Chordata, Sub-phylum Vertebrata, Class Osteichthyes and Order Perciformes. They belong to the family Syngnathidae (syn - together or with [Greek] and gnathos - jaw [Greek]) that includes seadragons, pipefishes and pipehorses. Seahorses make up the genus Hippocampus (hippo - horse [Greek] and campos - sea animal [Greek]). 
info www.allthesea.com
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They are exquisite little creatures
I first saw them “close up” at the sealife centre at Rhyl and fell in love with them - they are little miracles of beauty
so gorgeous!
thanks Nicole - have a great day!
Thanks a lot for all the following; scientific details provided, fine picture, and those links. I am making use of them. Sending the sea horses picture to my grand children.
I’m sure they will love them and thanks for dropping by to read my blog - many blessings to you and your family
Colorful picture! A whole other world of wonder… We have an aquarium nearby and I remember being surprised to learn that it is the male seahorse who gets pregnant and gives birth. But still it’s the males who vie to impress the females.
Quoted from http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2003/february/shorse.htm
When male seahorses want to impress a female, they have tail pulling competitions, dragging each other around on the bottom of the seabed. They also snap at each other with their snouts and wrestle with each other using their long curved necks. They also display their pouches to the prospective female by opening and closing them, filling their pouches with water and expelling it with force, to show the fitness of the pouch for the birth process.
Male seahorses compete with each other to become pregnant for three weeks (during which time they cannot move around to search for the best food), go through 72 hours of labour and exhausting final contractions to release up to 200 baby seahorses.
wow, this is amazing, maybe the blue and colourful one in the picture is a male, he looks impressive! the courtship ritual sounds interesting… I wonder if there are any videos on youtube
Did you post this to The Ocean Village? If not, please feel free too! You know how much I love seahorses!
beautiful…
Thank you for sharing this..
I just love beauty - thanks for commenting Daydreamer and ange - we are raising awareness on seahorses - will copy a write up to the Ocean Village - lots of pictures of seahorses there, which I will add to